Funeral Fund for Jessica
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6/1/19. It is with a heavy heart that we had to say goodbye to Jessica today. A parent should never have to bury a child and the pain felt with her loss is unimaginable.
It has been beautiful to see how many lives she touched in her short 30 years on earth, and her amazing little girl will forever be the greatest gift she could have given us.
She will forever be missed.
5/26/2019
It is with great sadness to say that Jessica only has a very short time left with us.
Anyone that wishes to see her should try to do so while she is still at UPENN.
We will be bringing her home on hospice as soon as possible.
She has not been able to eat or drink for days despite medication and morphine was just started to control pain.
Josh and Dave and other family are with her now, I will be going up shortly. Josh will be leaving so I can see her, we do not want to bring julis there.
Thank you to everyone that has supported her and us on this difficult journey.
All additional funds raised will go toward funeral expenses and to keep her husband and daughter in the home they purchased just one short month before her diagnosis.
12/3/2018-today is the first chemo infusion for Jessica and this coming Monday she will begin temodar the chemo pill. Her energy level fluctuates from day to day.
A great concern is that the disability plan she pays into privately will end soon. Teachers do not receive NJ state temporary disability. Jessica and her husband bought their home in June never expecting her to spend the summer having multiple brain surgeries.
Amazing support from family and friends has greatly eased the burden as well as the generous donations made through gofundme.
Update: 10/30/18 -Jessie has completed radiation and is waiting for her oncology appointment the end of November and a new MRI to see if treatment has helped.
Next step is oral chemo and iv chemo,
she still cannot walk and needs a wheelchair. Her goal is to walk again!!
My daughter Jessica found out she had a tumor on her cerebellum July of this year. It is called midline diffuse glioma, grade 4 and is rare, so rare not enough studies have been done to know what treatments will help the best. The initial tumor was removed but another had since grown and is very aggressive.
Her condition has been changing so quickly in such a short amount of time that the original story i made I found myself constantly updating so I feel I need to re write it with her current status.
Since her her diagnosis she has had 4 brain surgeries between August 3 and September 5 along with 1 bedside procedure.
jess is currently still admitted at the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, she spent 13 days in ICU and is going on her 2nd day on the neuro floor.
She developed an infection which requires IV antibiotics twice a day, and had to have a picc line inserted.
After her her last two surgeries, which were 3 days apart, she is too weak to walk, eat, is forgetting things and needs an eye patch to see clear due to double vision, along with many other symptoms.
Jessica is a special education school teacher for lower elementary students, her passion to make a difference in the lives of children was all she ever wanted to do. Jessica was not a teacher who took summers off, she taught students who were in the extended school year program and also tutored students in her spare time.
She he has been married for 4 years and has a 20 month old daughter. Her husband took a leave from work to help care for her, and I care for her also.
The gofundme is to help pay household expenses adding up, prescription costs not covered by insurance, and to set up care for their daughter when her husband has to return to work.
It takes two people at all times to help Jessie with all needs. After discharge from the hospital special transportation will be needed to assist in getting her from New Jersey to Philadelphia to continue her radiation treatment and when chemo therapy begins.
As a mom my heart is breaking for her.
Her and her husband moved into their first home a few weeks before her diagnosis.
Jessie’s wish is to pick up her daughter, put her in a cart and walk into a store again.❤️
Any help great or small is genuinely appreciated, including prayers and well wishes.
Sharing her story is greatly appreciated.
You can follow Jessica and hear her story in her own words at: www.facebook.com/jessicasjourneytheabcs/
It has been beautiful to see how many lives she touched in her short 30 years on earth, and her amazing little girl will forever be the greatest gift she could have given us.
She will forever be missed.
5/26/2019
It is with great sadness to say that Jessica only has a very short time left with us.
Anyone that wishes to see her should try to do so while she is still at UPENN.
We will be bringing her home on hospice as soon as possible.
She has not been able to eat or drink for days despite medication and morphine was just started to control pain.
Josh and Dave and other family are with her now, I will be going up shortly. Josh will be leaving so I can see her, we do not want to bring julis there.
Thank you to everyone that has supported her and us on this difficult journey.
All additional funds raised will go toward funeral expenses and to keep her husband and daughter in the home they purchased just one short month before her diagnosis.
12/3/2018-today is the first chemo infusion for Jessica and this coming Monday she will begin temodar the chemo pill. Her energy level fluctuates from day to day.
A great concern is that the disability plan she pays into privately will end soon. Teachers do not receive NJ state temporary disability. Jessica and her husband bought their home in June never expecting her to spend the summer having multiple brain surgeries.
Amazing support from family and friends has greatly eased the burden as well as the generous donations made through gofundme.
Update: 10/30/18 -Jessie has completed radiation and is waiting for her oncology appointment the end of November and a new MRI to see if treatment has helped.
Next step is oral chemo and iv chemo,
she still cannot walk and needs a wheelchair. Her goal is to walk again!!
My daughter Jessica found out she had a tumor on her cerebellum July of this year. It is called midline diffuse glioma, grade 4 and is rare, so rare not enough studies have been done to know what treatments will help the best. The initial tumor was removed but another had since grown and is very aggressive.
Her condition has been changing so quickly in such a short amount of time that the original story i made I found myself constantly updating so I feel I need to re write it with her current status.
Since her her diagnosis she has had 4 brain surgeries between August 3 and September 5 along with 1 bedside procedure.
jess is currently still admitted at the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, she spent 13 days in ICU and is going on her 2nd day on the neuro floor.
She developed an infection which requires IV antibiotics twice a day, and had to have a picc line inserted.
After her her last two surgeries, which were 3 days apart, she is too weak to walk, eat, is forgetting things and needs an eye patch to see clear due to double vision, along with many other symptoms.
Jessica is a special education school teacher for lower elementary students, her passion to make a difference in the lives of children was all she ever wanted to do. Jessica was not a teacher who took summers off, she taught students who were in the extended school year program and also tutored students in her spare time.
She he has been married for 4 years and has a 20 month old daughter. Her husband took a leave from work to help care for her, and I care for her also.
The gofundme is to help pay household expenses adding up, prescription costs not covered by insurance, and to set up care for their daughter when her husband has to return to work.
It takes two people at all times to help Jessie with all needs. After discharge from the hospital special transportation will be needed to assist in getting her from New Jersey to Philadelphia to continue her radiation treatment and when chemo therapy begins.
As a mom my heart is breaking for her.
Her and her husband moved into their first home a few weeks before her diagnosis.
Jessie’s wish is to pick up her daughter, put her in a cart and walk into a store again.❤️
Any help great or small is genuinely appreciated, including prayers and well wishes.
Sharing her story is greatly appreciated.
You can follow Jessica and hear her story in her own words at: www.facebook.com/jessicasjourneytheabcs/
Organizer and beneficiary
Sharon Winter
Organizer
Hammonton, NJ
Joshua Carter
Beneficiary
